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Title page......Page 1 Table of contents......Page 4 List of figures......Page 10 List of tables......Page 16 Preface......Page 17 1 A gentle introduction to GIS......Page 26 1.1 The purpose of GIS......Page 27 1.1.1 Some fundamental observations......Page 30 1.1.2 A first definition of GIS......Page 33 1.1.3 Spatial data and geoinformation......Page 42 1.1.4 Applications of GIS......Page 43 1.2 The real world and representations of it......Page 45 1.2.1 Modelling......Page 46 1.2.2 Maps......Page 48 1.2.3 Databases......Page 49 1.2.4 Spatial databases......Page 52 1.3 An overview of upcoming chapters......Page 57 2 Geographic information and Spatial data types......Page 64 2.1 Geographic phenomena......Page 67 2.1.1 Geographic phenomenon defined......Page 68 2.1.2 Different types of geographic phenomena......Page 70 2.1.3 Geographic fields......Page 73 2.1.4 Geographic objects......Page 77 2.1.5 Boundaries......Page 81 2.2 Computer representations of geographic information......Page 82 2.2.1 Regular tessellations......Page 85 2.2.2 Irregular tessellations......Page 88 2.2.3 Vector representations......Page 90 2.2.4 Topology and spatial relationships......Page 100 2.2.5 Scale and r

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Author

Rolf A. de By (editor)

Publisher

The International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC)

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9789061641834

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, Anthropology, Humanities